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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

More talk about integrity today at co-op. This time we talked about integrity and making a spending plan. We came to the conclusion that integrity means giving/tithing comes first, then the necessities, then fun money. Integrity also means sticking to the spending plan, even when that is hard to do.

In honor of national humor month:

IF MY BODY WERE A CAR...

If my body were a car, this is the time I would be thinking about trading it in for a newer model. I've got bumps and dents and scratches in my finish and my paint job is getting a little dull ...

But that's not the worst of it.

My headlights are out of focus and it's especially hard to see things up close.

My traction is not as graceful as it once was. I slip and slide and skid and bump into things even in the best of weather.

The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt with the capture of Louis IX of France, 1250Henry IV of France signs the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion and political rights to Huguenots (French Protestants), 1598John Dryden, age 36, becomes the first English Poet Laureate, 1668The first elephant seen in the Western Hemisphere arrives from India, 1796The British Parliament grants religious freedom to Roman Catholics, 1829Hungary becomes a republic, 1849The first US Pony Express run is completed, 1860George Westinghouse patents a steam powered brake, 1869J.C. (James Cash) Penney opens his first store, 1902British troops fire on unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing at least 379 and wounding over 1,200 more, 1919Helen Hamilton becomes the first woman US Civil Service Commissioner, 1920Lord Clydesdale makes the first flight over Mt. Everest, 1933The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of his birth, in Washington, D.C., 1943Van Cliburn becomes the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 1958